Milestones 03(2015)

MILESTONES 03(2015)

CARICC Council Meeting in Almaty

In addition to assignment of the new Director, a number of issues were reviewed by the Council and CARICC observer status was grant- ed to the Republic of Belarus. The next CARICC Council meeting is scheduled to be held in December of 2015. Deputies of the Director as well as other staff will be re- placed in line with the CARICC rules and regulations adopted by seven Member States. The new CARICC staff will be recruited among the applicants from the Member States in 2015. During the joint press conference organized by CARICC and UNODC . on 30 June 2015, the Drug Situa- tion Report 2014 along with the UNODC World Drug Report 2015 was presented to the donor community as well as mass media representatives. 03(2015)

Regional Workshop to Address the Phenomenon of Foreign Terrorist Fighters

The event was organised by the Ter- Experts from the Prosecutor’s Office rorism Prevention Branch of the in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United Nations Office on Drugs and United Kingdom Police National Le- Crime (UNODC/TPB), in collaboration gal Database (PNLD), as well as from with the Action Against Terrorism/ the OSCE, Shanghai Cooperation Transnational Threats Department of Organization, and several UN agen- the Organization for Security and Co- cies shared experiences and practic- operation in Europe (OSCE) and with es in preventing individuals from the support from the UNODC Re- travelling to conflict areas and ana- gional Office for Central Asia (ROCA). lyzed the challenges related to the The objective of the workshop was prosecution of returnees. National to enhance the capacity of national practitioners from law enforcement criminal justice institutions of Cen- agencies and national security insti- tral Asian countries through in-depth tutions from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, discussion of the practical aspects Tajikistan and Uzbekistan participat- related to the effective investigation, ed in the discussions. During the prosecution and adjudication of ter- sessions, UNODC/TPB provided an rorism related offences, particularly overview of the international legal those concerning foreign terrorist requirements related to the phenom- fighters. The participants reviewed enon of foreign terrorist fighters, the obligations to prevent and sup- particularly the United Nations Secu- press the recruiting, organizing, rity Council Resolution 2178(2014), transporting or equipping of individ- and presented measures and mecha- uals who travel for the purpose of nisms to tackle the problem. the perpetration, planning, prepara- Workshop participants emphasized tion of or participation in terrorist the need for further training work- activities. They also highlighted shops and noted with appreciation ways to improve inter-governmental UNODC’s readiness to provide tech- co-operation at the regional level to nical support and facilitate regional prevent and prosecute foreign terror- and international cooperation. ist fighters’ related offences.

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Project Helps to Improve Intelligence Analysis Capacity

The UNODC Regional Representative for that UNODC is the principle partner which Central Asia, Ms. Ashita Mital, highlighted provides support in the area of crime pre- The meeting was organized in the frame- the support provided by the project to the vention and plays a major role in the coor- work of the “Drug law enforcement sys- drug law enforcement agencies by deliv- dination of counter narcotics initiatives. tems for criminal intelligence collection, ering intelligence systems and providing During the meeting, the project work plan analysis and exchange” project. During specialized equipment and criminal intel- was discussed and harmonized with the the meeting, IT hardware (servers for stor- ligence analysis software, along with basic existing initiatives to be implemented in age of big volume of information, com- and advanced training, as a key element Uzbekistan by other partners. It was puters, printer and etc.) were handed over of the project activities. agreed to assess the required needs of the to the law enforcement agencies of Uz- Mr. Fazzliddin Gayirov, Senior Expert of software to improve and enhance the bekistan. International Department of NCDC, noted intelligence analysis capacity. Establishing Effective Container Control Systems to Better Address Illicit Goods Trafficking

The Government of the Republic of Ta- the previous activities conducted by the jikistan hosted the event at the Container Control Programme (CCP) in “Terminal” customs post in Dushanbe. Tajikistan, including the country’s tech- Experts from UNODC and the World Cus- nical needs assessment, as well as the toms Organization facilitated the train- participation in CCP regional activities ing, which served as a continuation of including the theoretical training in March 2015. The trainees became profi- cient in applying profiling and search techniques of high-risk consignments as well as exchange data via the secure "ContainerComm" communication system. In particular, the trainees identified and inspected the high-risk consignments selection of the containers in the pre-arrival (imports) and/or pre- departure (exports) phase, while also undertaking physical examinations. The CCP Regional Segment for Central Asia and Azerbaijan is funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Interna- tional Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Program.

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Control of Strategic and Dual Use Goods in Turkmenistan

The seminar was held in the framework of the project “Strengthening customs service and other law enforcement agencies capacity in im- plementing border and trade control, in particular, export/import control regimes”. ing awareness on international best menistan to Protect the Security of a The workshop aimed to introduce practices regarding the implementa- Healthy Society, State Border Service modern detection techniques to cus- tion of the UN Resolution 1540. Rep- and State Customs Service took part toms officers working in the import/ resentatives of the Ministry of Inter- in the event. export control field, as well as rais- nal Affairs, State Service of Turk-

Review the National Customs Regulations

Representatives of the State Cus- toms Service, State Ser- vice of Turkmenistan to Protect Se- curity of a Healthy Society, State Border Service, General Prosecutor’s Office, Ministry of National Security, Ministry of Defense and Ministry of ing the current national customs recommendations on the implemen- Internal Affairs took part in the regulations including the export con- tation of UNSCR 1540 which were meeting. trol list of dual use and military submitted to the government for The meeting was focused on review- goods. The Review group developed consideration.

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Law Enforcement Officials Better Informed and Equipped in Reaching Out to People Who Inject Drugs

At the same time, individual law enforcement (LE) officials can be at risk the design and delivery of a training ter-narcotics Training Centre of the of HIV acquisition as well, due to curriculum – resulting in law en- Almaty Academy of Ministry of Inte- their occupation, where they serve as forcement officials, at all levels, to rior (MoI) of the Republic of Kazakh- the front line in the community in be better informed and equipped to stan. Sixteen officers representing fighting crime and illicit drugs. Evi- grasp the unique opportunities their the police academies and institu- dence from many countries around work represents in reaching out to tions from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the world indicates that LE officials people who inject drugs, with whom Tajikistan and Uzbekistan participat- do not always have adequate they interact with on a daily basis. ed. knowledge about HIV and AIDS, Subsequently, a number of trainings From the very beginning, the work- which results in misconceptions and workshops have been held shop has attracted considerable about their own HIV risk as well as throughout Central Asia, Pakistan, interest among the trainees, while the increasing levels of stigmatiza- Moldova and Ukraine. In June 2015, significantly increasing the aware- tion and discrimination towards peo- a regional consultative workshop for ness of the participants on HIV pre- ple considered more at risk of HIV. the lecturers/instructors of the po- vention, treatment and care among Education and awareness raising lice academies on the "Role of Law the general population and among trainings can address such miscon- Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in pub- key groups, workplace safety and ceptions, encourage attitudinal lic health: The case of harm reduc- security, the critical role of LE in the change and improve the ability of tion and HIV prevention programmes national HIV response and the im- the police to collaboratively respond among people who inject drugs portance of the multi-sectoral ap- to HIV as part of a multi-sectoral (PWID)" took place in Almaty on the proaches in the end of the workshop. approach. premises of the Inter-Agency Coun- At the same time, the participants In 2014, UNODC developed a train- improved their understanding of the ing manual for law enforcement offi- course content and supported the cials on HIV services for people who idea of adapting the training manual inject drugs (http://www.unodc.org/ to the national contexts and needs unodc/en/hiv-aids/new/ while integrating it into the curricula publications_drugs.html), that pro- of their respective educational es- vides police of all ranks with the tablishments. The national plans essential knowledge and skills to have been developed, and until the both protect themselves and provide end of the year, all countries are an enabling environment that en- planning to implement the pilot hances the collective health of the courses either by updating the exist- community. The manual, with its ing courses and adding new modules simple modular structure, is meant to them or by introducing new cours- to support the police academies in es as vocational training.

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Network of Prosecutors from Source, Transit and Destination Countries in Response to Transnational Organized Crime

you know each other” noted National detection and investigation of the Public Prosecutor on Asset Recovery laundering of crime proceeds com- of the Public Prosecution Office for mitted through the use of electronic Serious Fraud, Environmental Crime money and virtual currencies. and Asset Recovery of the Nether- To further international coopera- lands, Mr. Dirk ten Boer at the CASC tion, the CASC networking initia- Third Plenary Meeting (23-25 June, tive also develops and dissemi- Yerevan, Armenia), which addressed nates practical tools. For instance, issues of informal and formal inter- the tips provided by the partici- national cooperation for the purpose pants of the CASC Second Plenary of recovery of proceeds from orga- Meeting on sharing practices in nized crime. The participants of the requesting and providing digital meeting acknowledged that the for- evidence in organized crime inves- mat of the CASC plenary meetings tigations and prosecutions, held in has so far allowed frank discussions Tbilisi from 9 to 11 December based on concrete cases and pro- 2014, were summarized in the doc- duced results in a short time. ument entitled “Basic tips for in- Apart from serving as a forum for vestigators and prosecutors for establishing and strengthening pro- requesting electronic/digital data/ fessional contacts, as well as stream- evidence from foreign jurisdic- In particular, participation in the ple- lining pending criminal cases, the tions”. The document was found to nary meetings of the CASC network initiative provides an opportunity for be very useful and applicable not has so far led to the establishment of the CASC states to improve their only in the CASC region, but glob- fruitful communication channels knowledge and skills in prosecuting ally. Therefore, it was posted on between the competent national complex cases including new types the UNODC webpage in both Eng- authorities of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz- of crime that emerge constantly. lish and Russian versions: http:// stan, Uzbekistan and the USA, as Thus, an inter-regional training www.unodc.org/documents/legal-tools/ well as Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and workshop held under the CASC initi- Tip_electronic_evidence_final_Eng_logo.pdf Sweden. ative on 31 March – 1 April in Ash- http://www.unodc.org/documents/legal- “I’m sure that international coopera- gabat facilitated the exchange of tools/ tion only works or works better when ‘know-how’ and best practices for Tip_electronic_evidence_final_Rus_logo.pdf

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Prosecutors of Kazakhstan Trained on Asset Recovery

order to confiscate the proceeds of Jersey (British Islands), Latvia, Rus- crime transferred to foreign jurisdic- sian Federation, Switzerland, USA, as In this context, in follow-up to the tions. In some cases, their hopes are well as PWC and UNODC. UNODC CASC network Third Plenary justified…. All this underlines the Apart from receiving knowledge, Meeting, which addressed the issues relevance and importance of the skills, practical tools and recommen- informal and formal international training workshop.” dations, the participants were pro- cooperation for the purpose of re- A two and half day of interactive vided with the useful contact details covery of proceeds from organized training workshop conducted by of the foreign Mutual Legal Assis- crime, the General Prosecutor Office UNODC in cooperation with the tance (MLA) Central Authorities, FIU of Kazakhstan requested UNODC to Academy of Law Enforcement Au- and police authorities. They appreci- organize a training workshop on sim- thorities under the General Prosecu- ated the opportunity to meet and ilar issues for prosecutors of Kazakh- tor Office of the Republic of Kazakh- learn from the practitioners from the stan. stan and PricewaterhouseCoopers main transit and destinations coun- Mr. Andrey Kravchenko, Deputy Pros- (PWC) from 29 September to 1 Octo- tries, to establish useful professional ecutor General of the Republic of ber in Astana, provided an opportuni- contacts and receive answers to their Kazakhstan, while inaugurating the ty for around 30 prosecutors of the numerous questions from foreign workshop, said “with Kazakhstan’s General Prosecutor Office and re- counterparts who dealt with the MLA GDP growth, business in Kazakhstan gional prosecution offices, as well as requests of Kazakhstan. is developing relations with many officers of the Committee on Finan- In concluding remarks, Deputy Direc- countries of the world. But besides cial Monitoring (FIU) and State Reve- tor of the Institute of the General those advantages that this increase nue Committee of the Ministry of Prosecutor Office of the Republic of brings, there are disadvantages in Finance of Kazakhstan to enhance Kazakhstan – Mr. Shakir Sha- that the criminals of Kazakhstan are their knowledge and skills in tracing, yahmetov – noted “For the last few able to withdraw their assets from seizing, confiscating and recovering years, this is the first time that we the country. At the same time they crime proceeds from foreign jurisdic- had such a knowledgeable pool of are counting that the law enforce- tions. The training was delivered by trainers with hands-on experiences ment agencies of Kazakhstan are the experts (prosecutors, FIU and law who directly deal with the issues unlikely to find ways and tools in enforcement officers) from Germany, discussed.”

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UNODC Supports the Kyrgyz Government on Eradicating Wild Cannabis

In total, more than 72 tons of cannabis has been destroyed in the Ak-Suu and Tyup districts of the Issyk-Kul province since the beginning of the year. However, it is only a small part out of the 550 hectares of wild cannabis which grows in the province. A joint operation, "Poppy 2015", was conducted by the State Service on Drug Control under the Government of Kyrgyzstan (SSDC) and supported local authorities and the mass media of wild cannabis, which is growing in by the United Nations Office on Drug took part in the operation. INL Coun- Kyrgyzstan, requires coordinated and Crime. Representatives of try Director Ms. Joye Davis-Kirchner efforts by the main national counter- UNODC, SSDC, and other law en- took part in the event as well. parts including the local governors, forcement agencies, representatives Mr. Rafik Mambetaliev, Chairperson the general population with the sup- of the judiciary system, as well as of the SSDC noted that the big areas port of international organizations.

Better Working Conditions for Law Enforcement Officers

The event was attended by Mr. A. Mamataliev, Vice-Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, Mr. R. Mam- betaliev, Chairman of SSDC, Mr. E. Kaptagayev, Government Repre- sentative in Issyk-Kul province, Mr. Mr. Abdyrahman Mamataliev, the Vice Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, is G. Pustovitov, Representative of the burying a capsule into the construction place. Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation, and Mr. R. port provided by UNODC to the SSDC The Governments of the Russian Kalygulov, Mayor of Karakol city. which helps improve the technical Federation and the United States of The Vice-Prime Minister of Kyrgyz- capacity of the agency as well as the America are the main donors of the stan expressed gratitude for the sup- efficiency of its work. UNODC project.

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Equal Access to Justice

Winners of the “Women in Po- tunities for work and career de- lice” competition were rewarded velopment for women in law en- at the Media Competition Award forcement agencies as well as to Ceremony held at the Ministry of demonstrate the contribution of Interior in July, 2015. The competition was organized by policewomen in policing. The UNODC jointly with the Ministry best contest materials are avail- of Interior. able at the gender page of the The aim of competition was to Ministry of Interior’s web-site raise public awareness on oppor- http:// gender.mvd.kg/

On Appeal Against Illegal Police Actions

In June-July 2015, Voice of Liberty Public Foundation delivered a broad presentation of the manual “On appeal against illegal police actions” for the citizens of Kyrgyz- stan. The manual is addressed to the citizens, non-government organizations, human right activists and all stakeholders who are interest- ed in the adequate understanding of the duties and responsibilities of the relevant institutions regarding illegal actions of the police. The manual is available in the Kyr- law-enforcement bodies with the plaints. The electronic version of gyz and Russian languages, and indication of deadlines, recom- the manual can be downloaded at thoroughly describes the proce- mendations, contact data, tem- links: http://precedent.kg/?p=3842 dures of submission and appeal to plates of applications and com- and http://vof.kg/?p=24070

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Construction commencement ceremonies of Over 5 million Kyrgyz Soms Allocated for the Kulundu Police Station the new police stations in Kulundu village in the Leilek district, Batken province and in the Alamedin district, Chui province were held. The new building of the Kulundu village police station is built with the support of UNODC and the Ministry of Interior in line with Resolu- tion of the Government “On measures for reforming of the interior institutions of the Kyrgyz Republic”. The main goal of the police reform is to develop an effective system, which is trusted and respected by the society. The total amount of the construction works and provided equipment is over 5 million Kyrgyz soms.

Special Report of Kyrgyzstan Ombudsman

Public hearings on the draft of the special report of the Ombudsman of the Kyrgyz Republic on “Labor rights and social security of police officers of the Kyrgyz Republic” were held in Osh city on September 22, 2015. The hearings were organized by the Om- busman Institute of the Kyrgyz Re- public with the support of the UNODC in order to improve the conditions for the social-legal protection of the police staff.

Crime Prevention Plans for Local Communities 2015-2017 In September 2015, a local crime prevention plan for 2015-2017 was ap- proved by the city council of Jalalabad city. UNODC has been actively collaborating with the local communities and police on crime prevention in the pilot re- gions of Kyrgyzstan since mid-October 2014. In order to develop the Crime Prevention Plan for Jalalabad city, a series of consultations with the munici- palities, leaders of the local communities, police and the society were held jointly with the “International Toler- ance Foundation” partner organization. Its implementation will help reduce the rate of offences, ensure public safety and crime prevention based on princi- ples of social partnership.

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Strengthening Cooperation Between Prison and Drug Control Services

On 4 September 2015, the Head of the State Service on Punish- ment Execution (SSPE), Mr. Mamyrkulov, and the Director of the State Service of Drug Con- trol (SSDC), Mr.Mambetaliev, signed an Instruction on inter- agency intelligence cooperation. “This Instruction allows us to conduct joint intelligence oper- ations aimed at countering the illicit drug trafficking in the penitentiary system. Our agencies’ territorial subdivisions will now interact directly, which should demonstrate better results” - said Mr. Mambetaliev. Mr. Mamyrkulov emphasized a good perspective for further cooperation in the field of drug tween the prisons and the drug the new analytical department, control. The UNODC prison re- control service to help develop training of respective staff in form project, is aimed at the prison security system, in- data collection and analysis. strengthening cooperation be- cluding opening and equipping

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UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia 03(2015) Tajikistan Piloted the Evidence-Based Family Skills Training Programme

The first cycle of piloting the SFP 10- 14 in the selected schools of Tajiki- stan has started in September with a four day training conducted by the two international trainers (UK) - Ms. Deborah Allen and Mr. Lindsey Coombes. The main goal of the training was to train the team of local facilitators for further deliver the SFP 10-14 in the selected schools. The SFP 10-14 is being implemented in the framework of the global “Prevention of drug use, HIV/AIDS program focusing on reducing family trials or health services researches and crime among young people -related risk factors for adolescents with positive results in reducing sub- through family skills training pro- and building protective factors for stance abuse and delinquency risk grammes in low- and middle-income them (children 10-14 years old) and factors by improving family relation- countries” project. Tajikistan is the their parents with the involvement ships. first country in the region which pi- of community members. SFP 10-14 The training was attended by 20 lots the new programme. have been evaluated by independent teachers from schools №24 and №94 The SFP 10-14 is a seven-session researchers in randomized control of Dushanbe.

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